Final “I Promise” Docuseries Episode Another Fascinating Look At How Students Are Improving

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00:00I'm Melissa Rowland with Sports Illustrated, and we're here with Jill Painter-Lopez.

00:08Now, Jill, the final episode of LeBron James' documentary series about his I Promise School

00:13recently aired.

00:14Tell us about what happened, and what were your general impressions of the series as

00:19a whole?

00:20Well, Melissa, it was a fascinating series.

00:23I teared up at every episode.

00:24They were just little seven-minute snippets, and they were very emotional, and it was just

00:29really neat to see the growth of all these kids, both as people, students, and, of course,

00:36just their growth with their classmates and in their home, all the progress they've made.

00:40One of the kids asked LeBron in the final episode, why did you start this school?

00:45And he said, hey, because I was you.

00:47And we just saw that, obviously, the kids are at home on their computers, and LeBron

00:52retweeted Principal Davis, sending out a video message to everybody saying, hey, let's make

00:57sure we get in our Googles with our teachers.

00:59Let's stay on track with our homework and our studies.

01:02And she said, let's be accountable.

01:03Let's talk to other kids and make sure they're doing it too.

01:05So it's neat to see that this just wasn't a docu-series.

01:08I mean, this is real life, and they're obviously continuing on and trying to inspire one another.

01:13And I want to know how all those kids are doing, Nate, Vince, and Dashauna.

01:18I hope they continue the series.